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Herrera explores the ideological foundations of the military ethos among the male citizenry of the new American republic. His broad gaze takes in officers and men of the federal regulars, U.S. volunteers, and state militias. His research is deep and wide, and his analysis, rigorous and convincing. Herrera revises our historical understanding of the relationship between militancy, citizenship, and manhood. -Durwood Ball, University of New Mexico

Ricardo Herrera's superbly crafted study suggests that scholars may have been too quick to replace the Republican Synthesis with alternative interpretations to explain Americans' motivations for military service between the end of the American Revolution and the Civil War. Herrera convincingly demonstrates how republican ideals stamped early nineteenth-century soldiers' understanding of their duty, their service, and, paradoxically, the recognition and rewards they expected society to lavish upon them for embracing that duty and service. For Liberty and the Republic should inspire us to reconsider and reexamine the indelible power that republicanism held over American soldiers-West Point-trained professionals, militia men, and tens of thousands of volunteers alike-who fought the new nation's wars. -John Grenier,author of The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814 Herrera explores the ideological foundations of the military ethos among the male citizenry of the new American republic. His broad gaze takes in officers and men of the federal regulars, U.S. volunteers, and state militias. His research is deep and wide, and his analysis, rigorous and convincing. Herrera revises our historical understanding of the relationship between militancy, citizenship, and manhood. -Durwood Ball,University of New Mexico

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Ricardo A. Herrera is Associate Professor of Military History at the School of Advanced Military Studies, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

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